Greenland’s 🇬🇱 suzerain Denmark is part of the EU. Number of countries in the EU have dependent territories that are not part of the EU. France and Netherlands are a notable example, and previously also Great Britain, which had by far the largest number of overseas territories the weren’t part of the EU.
Trump’s aim to annex Canada and Greenland, and the Panama Canal are curiously hilarious. And my own reaction to this is “why not?” He is going to make Murica greater, and nobody really cares. The hysterical reaction to it is curiously entertaining…
You know who I voted for in the European elections? You see that guy with SPD above his face. That guy, Ivan David, I knew he will not support Ukraine…
A motion on the mechanism of lending mechanism for Ukraine and which lends Ukraine an extraordinary macro-financial help…
The other two that did not vote for it, Konečná and Dostál have identical views on Ukraine as David but they are leftists, I would not vote for a leftist.
A memorandum on the 11th year of occupation of Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation.
Again, we see the same pattern. I am kind of surprised Mr. Kolář was not present. Crimea used to be part of Russia and was given arbitrarily to Ukraine by Khrushchev. Ukraine as a custodian of Crimea was not very nice to the territory. So when the government in Kiev collapsed in 2014, Russia acted to protect the peninsula, its population, and its interests there.
If you are against the Russian annexation of Crimea, you are denying the Russians residing in Crimea their right to self determination. Further, you are supporting the sovereignty of Ukrainian Nazis over this territory. Therefore your position is utterly malicious, and if you interpret the situation in any other way than I just described, you are an asshole, and a liar that interprets the truth to suit your anti-Russian agenda.
It is time for Ukrainian refugees to go home. Their stay here (in Czechia) is long overdue.
SPD are right-wing grifters, and they aim at the lower classes that are the most affected by mass influx of Ukrainian refugees. I am still weighing options and might abstain from voting in the next parliamentary elections. I am not against Ukrainian refugees, we had them coming, and one should accept his karma. Okamura is going to get his few percentages, will not be part of the government, and will be a talking head in the parliament. I might actually give my vote to a force that is more likely to form a government.
Georgian prime minister refused to continue talks on EU ascension for another 4 years. Which is another way of saying he will not deal with it. This ignited passions in the streets of Tbilisi.
The prime minister said the goal of the government to is to join the EU in 2030. Serbia and Turkey have waited in line longer.
I never got why EU ignites such passions. Life in Georgia sucks ass, and the EU has been sold to the masses as some kind of future salvation. So the idiots are now acting like somebody took their favourite toy. I think the government is too afraid to say outright they are changing course.
Nov 19 (Reuters) – The European Union is planning to compel Chinese companies to transfer technology to European businesses in return for EU subsidies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing two senior EU officials.
Basically, the deal is, we give you money if you make your technology public to our companies. 😁
Guys, Russia just wants to be payed for its gas. If you don’t pay what Russia wants, you will not get any gas…
OMV said it would stop paying for Gazprom gas to its Austrian arm to offset a 230 million-euro ($242 million) arbitration award it won from the International Chamber of Commerce over an earlier cutoff of gas to its German subsidiary.
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Russia cut off most natural gas supplies to Europe in 2022, citing disputes over payment in rubles, a move European leaders described as energy blackmail over their support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.
If support for Ukraine means Russia is not getting payed for its gas, you can expect the gas flow to be cut off. This is not blackmail, this is business. Imagine you walk into a shop and start setting prices and the currency of exchange because of a moral argument against the retailer…
Recently, my neighbors visited Japan, and they flew through Shanghai…
The Chinese airlines are making a killing transporting people from Europe to Asia. Following Russian invasion of Ukraine, to punish Russia, America’s lackies decided to deny Russia their Boeings and Airbuses. As a response, Russia denied its airspace to airlines from unfriendly countries. This means that Chinese airlines now have a monopoly on flights between Europe and North Asia, and South Asia has traditionally been the domain of the Arabs, Hong Kong and Singapore.
In an interview on the Dutch television programme WNL Op Zondag, she [Marjan Rintel, the CEO of KLM] highlighted that, unlike European airlines for whom Russian airspace is closed due to the war on Ukraine, Chinese carriers can use Russian airspace when serving Europe, which saves them time, reduces fuel costs, and results in lower fares. “That sometimes saves you two to four hours. You see that reflected in the price, and of course, the costs are higher for us.”
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Akin to rival Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt International) and its recent appeals to the EU, Rintel called on Brussels to address this disparity to level the playing field for European carriers. “Europe can at least see how we can prevent that unfair playing field by pricing it or looking at it differently.”
I have written about Lufthansa’s woes on this blog here. So these airlines instead of demanding an easing of sanctions against Russia, which could open up flight corridors over that country, would rather like to make travel to Asia expensive for everyone. No doubt their demands were encouraged by tariffs on Chinese EVs. Not like the price of EVs isn’t already high for the consumer, and the latter does not see it as a worth while expense for EV’s that are generally shit cars. The Chinese offered a cheaper option, and had to be punished.
Deglobalization will ultimately hurt Joe Average, who is already suffering from inflation.
Mass migration has undone the Shengen, the ability to traverse the continent without border controls. Remember, in 2015, Merkel invited the refugees, apparently this was easier than being accused of being racist and fascist by the leftists.
Merkel also sperged out after Fukushima, and closed Germany’s nuclear powerplants. She has told Vovan and Lexus that the Minsk accords were never to be enacted by Ukraine. Well, then somebody, some say Ukrainians themselves, blew up the Nord Stream. History will not look kindly on Angela Merkel. Now, high prices of energy make manufacturing uncompetitive. The green transition is only exacerbating the problem. The economic engine of Europe, Germany is deindustrializing.
History will not be kind to Merkel, I am not surprised she retired…
In my opinion, the Euro has been a disaster. While it did remove problems with the exchange rate, it removed the strength of the Mediterranean nations, which has been their undervalued currency. It made their producers competitive in Northern Europe. This is a perfect clusterfuck, and it is going to get worse, the powers that be don’t have the political will to do anything about it…
Patriots for Europe want to give the Sacharov prize to Musk. It is nothing but trolling seethed Gregorová, a Czech progressive left politician from the Pirate party.
The idea of Eurosiberia is an idea presented by Guillaume Faye in the book Archeofuturism.
The AfD wants to do what no prior post-unification government in Germany has done, ask the US military on its soil to leave. They also do not want to be part of the EU. And even though Germany could seen as the economic engine of the EU, they are not always on the same page…
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